Re: Apple /// gear in San Francisco...

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

schmidtd wrote:
> On May 9, 2:24 pm, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > While we're on the subject of Apple III, [...]
> >
> > Also would appreciate tips on servicing Apple III floppy drives.
>
>
> They're mechanically equivalent to the normal Disk II drives - with
> the added bonus that formatting a disk with them will complain if
> they're far out of whack, slow or fast.  The schematics are available
> on Asimov and apple3.org.  There are a few extra signals that aid in
> the daisy-chaining up to three more drives off the back of the
> internal one.  Is there a particular problem you're trying to solve?

In fact, they are completely equivalent, with the sole exception
being the drive select daisy-chaining.

For years I used a select-modified Disk /// on my ][+ system with
a Disk ][ Controller.

-michael

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